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FFF EMAIL UPDATE ARCHIVES
AFGHANISTAN
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Punishing the Wikileaker
by Eric Margolis
Toronto Sun
Bradley Manning's Guilt — and Ours
by Will Wilkinson
The Week
The Killing Fields of Afghanistan
Editorial
The Guardian
The Cycle of Violence in Afghanistan
by Ron Paul
U.S. House of Representatives
So Please Tell Me Again: What's the Afghanistan War About?
by William Blum
Aljazeerah.info
In Support of Imprisoned Wikileaks Whistleblower Pvt. Bradley Manning
by Ray McGovern
Alternet.org
Appallingly Heroic
by Ted Rall
Uexpress.com
The Next Justification for War
by Jason Ditz
Detroit Free Press
Who's Afraid of Bradley Manning?
by Karen Kwiatkowski
LewRockwell.com
Momentum Becomes Substitute for Logic in Afghan War
by Eugene Robinson
Washington Post
Neocons Are Hypocrites on Wikileaks
by Sunny Hundal
The Guardian
Oh, What a Lovely, Useless (Afghan) War
by James Jackson
Taki's Magazine
Kiss This War Goodbye
by Frank Rich
New York Times
Afghanistan's Unjust War
by Mark Vernon
The Guardian
Out of Afghanistan
by Ralph Nader
Common Dreams
Pakistan No Obedient Ally
by Eric Margolis
Toronto Sun
It's No Secret What Pakistan's Been Doing with the Taliban
by Tariq Ali
The Guardian
Afghanistan War Logs: Civilians Have Paid the Price for Failed Military Policy
by Michael Clarke
The Guardian
Why NATO Should Withdraw from Afghanistan
by Christoph Schwennicke
Der Spiegel
War Logs Aren't Just About Bungling Bush
by Simon Tisdall
The Guardian
A History of Folly, from the Trojan Horse to Afghanistan
by Simon Jenkins
The Guardian
Could Wikileaks Offer a Way Out of War?
by Katrina vanden Heuvel
Washington Post
Wikileaks Reveal the Obvious Dangers of Afghanistan
by Eugene Robinson
Washington Post
WikiLeaks Wasn't Wrong
Editorial
Los Angeles Times
WikiLeaks and the War
by Amy Davidson
New Yorker
Afghanistan War Logs: The Unvarnished Picture
Editorial
The Guardian
The Significance of the Wikileaks
by Andrew J. Bacevich
NPR
Wikileaks: A New Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan
by Philippe Sands
The Guardian
Afghanistan War Logs: Shattering the Illusion of a Bloodless Victory
by Richard Norton-Taylor
The Guardian
Why Are We in Afghanistan?
by Doug Bandow
Cato Institute
Now Afghanistan Too Shows the Limits of American Power
by Seumas Milne
The Guardian
Unlike Iraq, Dressing Retreat Up as Success Will Be Difficult
by Patrick Cockburn
Independent
A Hidden World, Growing Beyond Control
by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin
Washington Post
It's Obama's War, All Right
by Gene Healy
Cato Institute
Afghanistan in Ruins
by Anthony Dimaggio
Counterpunch
Losing in Afghanistan
by Marjorie Cohn
Common Dreams
Guantánamo: The Definitive Prisoner List (Update for Summer 2010)
by Andy Worthington
Common Dreams
The Price of Defending Terrorists
by Petra Bartosiewicz
Los Angeles Times
American War Versus Real War
by Nick Turse
TomDispatch.com
Funding Corruption and Waste in Afghanistan
by Ron Paul
U.S. House of Representatives
Heed Steele, Paul on Afghanistan
by Helen Logan Tackett
Washington Times
Afghanistan Is a Catastrophe
by Simon Jenkins
The Guardian
Saving Face in Unwinnable War
by Eric Margolis
Toronto Sun
Exum's Challenge: Game On!
by Kelley B. Vlahos
Antiwar.com
Michael Steele May Be Right About the War in Afghanistan
by James Antle
The Guardian
The Unknown Afghan Body Count
by James Denselow
The Guardian
Endless War, a Recipe for Four-Star Arrogance
by Andrew J. Bacevich
Washington Post
Nation Building in Afghanistan? That's Afghans' Job
by Eugene Robinson
Washington Post
From Great Man to Great Screwup: Behind the McChrystal Uproar
by Norman Solomon
Antiwar.com
Taliban's Time Horizon Longer than America's
by Ivan Eland
Independent Institute
Our Enemies or Our Allies?
by Malou Innocent
Cato Institute
Afghan Mission Impossible
by George F. Will
Boston Herald
General Discharge
by Robert Scheer
Truthdig.com
Is There an End in Sight in Afghanistan?
by Robert Fox
The Guardian
In Britain's Exhausting Boer War, a Parallel for Afghanistan
by Carlos Lozada
Washington Post
A Bruise on the First Amendment
Editorial
New York Times
Supreme Court Should Have Intervened in Maher Arar Case
Editorial
Los Angeles Times
The Obama Administration and Its Pundit-Defenders
by Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
What Price Afghanistan?
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Antiwar.com
From Vietnam to Afghanistan. Not Winning Hearts and Minds
by Henry Allen
Washington Post
Is Afghanistan Really the Next El Dorado?
by Stephen M. Walt
Foreign Policy
Fighting the Viet Cong in Afghanistan
by Richard Cohen
Washington Post
Afghanistan: Another 30 Years?
by Jeff Sparrow
Crikey.com
The Courage to Leave
by Bob Herbert
New York Times
No End to Tragedies in Afghanistan
by Sahil Kapur
The Guardian
Rethink Afghanistan (video)
Brave New Foundation
The Longest War
by Alan Grayson
Huffington Post
Vietnam, Minus the Jungle
by Peter Preston
The Guardian
Let Cameron Hasten the End of Our Absurd Afghan War
by Simon Jenkins
The Guardian
A Flawed Strategy and a Failed war in Afghanistan
by Katrina vanden Heuvel
Washington Post
Taliban: The Indistinguishable Enemy
by Mustafa Qadri
The Guardian
Another Drug Record for Afghanistan
by Julien Mericile
Counterpunch
Afghan Effort Is "Unwinnable"
by R.E. Heubel
Battle Creek Inquirer
The Rape of the Afghan Boys
by Kelley B. Vlahos
Antiwar.com
As Iraq Threatens to Come Apart, U.S. Problems in Afghanistan Mount
by William Pfaff
Truthdig.com
How Americans Are Propagandized About Afghanistan
by Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
Inside Afghanistan's Jails
by Gareth Porter
Counterpunch.org
Obama in Afghanistan
by Dave Lindorff
Counterpunch.org
An Unaccustomed Truth: American Commander Admits Afghan Atrocities
by Chris Floyd
Empire Burlesque
Déjà Vu in Marja
by Andrew J. Bacevich
America
Supporting the War Instead of the Troops
by Ron Paul
U.S. House of Representatives
Obama's Potemkin Afghanistan
by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com
Digging in for the Long Haul in Afghanistan
by Nick Turse
Nieman Watchdog
Afghan Women's Rights Are Not Our Fight
by Cole Harrison
Boston Globe
Blame Charlie Wilson
by Douglas Smith
Boston Globe
Who Will It Be?
by Laurence M. Vance
LewRockwell.com
Battle for Marjah: The US Has Already Lost
by Dave Lindorff
Common Dreams
"Government in a Box" in Marja
by Andrew J. Bacevich
Los Angeles Times
The 700 Military Bases of Afghanistan
by Nick Turse
TomDispatch.com
America's Confused Approach to Afghanistan
by William Pfaff
Truthdig.com
The Shadow War: Making Sense of the New CIA Battlefield in Afghanistan
by Tom Engelhardt and
Nick Turse
TomDispatch.com
The Danger of Hired Guns
by James Denselow
The Guardian
What the Soviets Learned in Afghanistan About Assumptions
by Jordan Michael Smith
Christian Science Monitor
Welcome to Orwell's World
by John Pilger
New Statesman
The Moment that Changed Afghanistan
by Stephen Kinzer
The Guardian
Obama, Tell Me How This Ends: Is Afghanistan Just a New War of Attrition
by Andrew J. Bacevich
New York Daily News
Obama's Af-Pak War Is Illegal
by Marjorie Cohn
CommonDreams.org
The War Democrats
by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com
U.S. Turbulence Buffets Pakistan
by Eric Margolis
Toronto Sun
Stunning Statistics About the War in Afghanistan Every American Should Know
by Jeremy Scahill
Alternet.org
A Losing Bet in Afghanistan
by Steve Chapman
Reason
The War Democrats
by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com
The Fallacy of Good vs. Evil in Afghanistan
by William Pfaff
Antiwar.com
Afghanistan's Never-Ending Challenge
by H.D.S. Greenway
Boston Globe
A Sharp Turn Toward Another Vietnam
by George McGovern
Washington Post
Gravel's Lament: Fighting Another Dumb War
by Chris Hedges
Truthdig.com
Kissinger's Fantasy Is Obama's Reality
by Pankaj Mishra
The Guardian
A Sharp Turn Toward Another Vietnam
by George McGovern
Washington Post
Troop Surge in Afghanistan a Losing Investment
by Robert Higgs
Independent Institute
Pay for the War, or Just Call It Off?
by Ivan Eland
Independent Institute
So Much for the Peace Presidency
by Gene Healy
Cato Institute
What Must Afghans Think?
by Karen Kwiatkowski
LewRockwell.com
The Afghan "Experiment"
by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com
Afghanistan: No More the Good War
by John J. Mearsheimer
Newsweek
Yeswecanistan
by William Blum
Anti-Empire Report
We Can't Buy Peace in Afghanistan
by Seumas Milne
The Guardian
Voting for Failure in Afghanistan
by Stephen Kinzer
The Guardian
Time for Truth About Torture
by Colin Horgan
The Guardian
Critics of Afghanistan Need to Look in the Mirror
by Eric Margolis
Toronto Sun
Face Down the Militarists and Get Out of Afghanistan. No Strings Attached
by Simon Jenkins
The Guardian
The General Is Right. Liam Fox Is Wrong
by Patrick Cockburn
The Independent
Pacifying Afghanistan: A Dangerous Dream
by Walter Rodgers
Christian Science Monitor
U.S. Is Doing No Good in Afghanistan
by Malalai Joya
Mercury News
Get Out of Afghanistan
by Charles V. Pena
National Interest
Afghanistan: Groundhog Day
Editorial
The Guardian
America Is Performing Its Familiar Role of Propping Up a Dictator
by Robert Fisk
The Independent
Criminal Justice Rendered Impotent
by Clara Gutteridge
The Guardian
The Tortured Logic Continues
by Amy Goodman
Truthdig.com
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